Beyond social networking: Performing global Englishes in Facebook by college youth in Nepal

Journal of Sociolinguistics

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 483-509

  Sharma, Bal Krishna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

Facebook; Global Englishes; Identity; Multimodality; Nepal; Youth

Indexed keywords

EID: 84866777292     PISSN: 13606441     EISSN: 14679841     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9841.2012.00544.x     Document Type: Article

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